Comments on: Forza Motorsport 3 – First Previews & Trailer

By: mikem

mikem — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:41:56 +0000

Yes, I do and I wasn't expecting it to be any different from when Prologue was announced at 2007 E3. When the game was finally released in December of that year in Japan, it has all the features that was shown in the first teaser and following trailers. While it is not in game footage- Polyphony Digital seldom if ever show in game footage even in game screenshot releases are "enhanced" gameplay footage. The only time you actually get to see the actual game is when it's finally released. erale: @mikem: you realized that the GT5 trailer didn’t show any ingame footage?

By: erale

erale — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:20:51 +0000

@mikem: you realized that the GT5 trailer didn’t show any ingame footage?

By: dadada1

dadada1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:08:00 +0000

No Forza 3 is the definitive crashing game, or is that Shift?

By: mikem

mikem — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:30:01 +0000

Polyphony Digital finally showed the GT5 teaser at the end of Sony’s Press Conference and yes there will be damage and like Kazunori has always stated, he wanted it to be as realistic as possible and the damage they showed on the Subaru WRX looked a hell of a lot better than what’s shown on Forza 3 trailer. Sorry, but as of now Forza 3 is no longer the definitive racing game. Here: http://www.gtplanet.net/first-gran-turismo-5-damage-screenshot/
And from the trailer, it seems that the car grid has been increased from the 16 (in GT5 Prologue) to 18.
And now the GT5 trailer: http://www.gran-turismo.com/en/movie/d3284.html

By: Mr. A

Mr. A — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:19:27 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot about customisable single player races. That would be a much needed addition. Also, replays when playing splitscreen multiplayer.

By: Octavarium

Octavarium — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:18:18 +0000

Hmmm just watched the stunting video… that was a bit silly but the crash physics look great nonetheless.

By: Octavarium

Octavarium — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:14:03 +0000

Larger grids would have been nice.

Also hoping for:

- Some sort of qualifying
- Better AI
- More realistic race cars (developers of Forza 2 grouped the race cars into 4 categories, based seemingly on looks rather than real life performance)
- Customising arcade races, don’t want to be restricted to a handful of laps in exhibition mode.

Looks sweet though and seeing as I only play Forza 2 with a gamepad for casual fun I’m not as worried about wheel implementation.

By: Mr. A

Mr. A — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:01:27 +0000

Looks like this game have evolved very nicely since Forza 2. I was hoping we would see bigger grids though. Only 8 cars in a race can get boring quite fast imo.

By: HOBBS77

HOBBS77 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:01:59 +0000

My concern is like all the rest of the racing games on the 360. Lack of force feedback due to the fact that MS won’t allow it to be turned up because they’re afraid of their inferior wheel not being able to handle it.

By: tezuka_18

tezuka_18 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:38:41 +0000

Actual Gameplay footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDlE4s0X4so

I’ll post more when i find it

By: Sodapop

Sodapop — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:07:35 +0000

GeraArg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95FBSmSems8

That's the trailer for the video editor. Some people only bought forza 2 to make "movies" like this. Other's only bought it to paint as many cars as possible and then trade them... I don't understand it either.

By: GeraArg

GeraArg — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:21:02 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95FBSmSems8

By: JimmyB

JimmyB — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:01:48 +0000

Looks ace.

I enjoyed Forza 2, but the career mode tended to get very old very quickly. I’m hoping for some proper AI this time more than anything. The graphics almost look GT5-esque, and 400+ cars with cockpits like that is almost unthinkable!

By: Sodapop

Sodapop — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:22:52 +0000

I’m sorta used to flipping cars ,due to driving in some insane rfactor races, but it’s still nice seeing the console guys finally getting this feature. Looks like GT5 better step up it’s game. Flipping cars and damage with GT’s graphics would be just too frakkin cool for words.

Sodapop out.

By: ermax18

ermax18 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:12:00 +0000

Now that the 360 has the Fanatec wheels it is finally capable of having a true sim. Before that the 360 was just a toy with a toy wheel and a gamepad. Lets hope the 360 turns into a real sim.

By: UncleChuckle

UncleChuckle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:10:37 +0000

Just read the link below and my faith is partly restored.

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/fm3_factsheet.htm

Of course that might all be old news, but I only decided on getting an Xbox in the last couple of weeks.

100 tracks is cool, but is this the usual “Let’s count the reverse ones too”? Regardless, that’s a lot of tracks.

Even with my scepticism, being the junkie I am, I will most likely be buying it. Sucks about being forced to use the official wheel, but oh well.

By: mbeast

mbeast — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:05:36 +0000

Played the first one to death. Just about the only game I’ve really got into on the 360. Certainly looks much nicer than Forza 2 and dashboard is a huge addition in terms of immersion.

Too bad you’ll only be “allowed” to use a horrible official microsoft wheel with it

By: UncleChuckle

UncleChuckle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:59:22 +0000

Actually, in Forza is there anything like GT’s Photo Mode? Loved playing with that.

By: UncleChuckle

UncleChuckle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:56:24 +0000

I figured they were probably pimping to the masses, but when GT4 was pimped at E3 I remember being excited. But then I knew the GT series. I guess it’s the fact that for me Forza is an unknown quantity.

And yes, I had forgotten the Le Mans announcement!

By: Montoya

Montoya — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:53:36 +0000

I think they´re just advertising the stuff that’s more interesting to the general audience such as all this drifting and whatnot.

The “real” qualities it might have such as real life race tracks, race cars and realistic physics aren’t what the masses want to see I guess.

We just have to wait for new preview material and the game itself to see what Forza will be capable of in that field. They´ve made quite a bold statement about their physcis engine though.

Personally, I´m still wondering what will be announced on Friday before the Le Mans 24 Hour race…maybe they have something neat in store for fans of realistic racing.